Balfour Beatty's UK and Ireland construction business has announced the appointment of Mark Cutler as Managing Director of its regional construction and civil engineering business.

Mark will join Balfour Beatty at the end of January 2014 at a time when the ongoing recovery in the market has begun to feed through into increased work for Balfour Beatty's regional business.

Mark, a chartered civil engineer, is an experienced executive with a wide range of experience across the UK infrastructure market and an extensive project delivery background.


He joins Balfour Beatty from Barhale, the privately owned infrastructure specialists working UK-wide across the water, transport and energy sectors, where he was Chief Executive for the past three and a half years. Mark's previous positions include Managing Director of Morgan Est Plc and an extensive period with Tarmac Construction in a range of senior positions.

Balfour Beatty's regional business, which delivers projects ranging in value from £100,000 to £100m, currently stands at a turnover of approximately £1.8bn and spans numerous sectors including commercial, retail, coastal defence, local infrastructure, residential, student accommodation, defence and education. Activity is delivered through four regional hubs in Manchester, Edinburgh, London and Bristol and 17 delivery units across the UK and Ireland aligned to local customers.

(CD/JP)